(Mirimer may be in a state of complete if well-concealed panic.)

"A lot of people choose to work, and a lot of member polities charge some taxes, and a lot of people are interested enough in one or another Vanda Nossëo project to voluntarily fund it as a charitable budget item. The proceeds of selling some magical services and items that are meaningfully scarce also helps."

'A lot of people choose to work.' Make a note of that.

"But don't people produce less of what you tax?" 

Oh wow did these people do social experiments with their only society?

(PANIC)

So, nonmagical goods are so cheap that everyone can have all the goods they need, and that's free...

"Sure, to a point - some places use that to soft-discourage things they don't want to outright ban and tax, say, alcohol, or charge a lot of money for permits to operate loud appliances."

"But you - so is this basic income funded by member states, does Vanda Nosseo the super-entity tax member state - I think I need more of a picture of how your organization functions -"

(It is at this point that the slowest-moving member of the Saviors shows up. He's currently about sixty, but in fact is moving slowly because he does not own a jetpack and is out of shape for running for reasons that have nothing at all to do with how old he is and everything to do with how distracted he is.)

"Sorimer. Hi. You have magic?"

"They have magic! Let me catch you up -" and they'll move to the back and talk in whispers while Ari does her part of the talking.

"Vanda Nossëo doesn't charge taxes. It does have a lot of investments, but the original money came from a few interested individuals involved in the founding donating the proceeds of their valuable abilities."

This is SO COOL.

"So you're running your federation off of the - investment profits? Of a starting fund?"

"Mostly, yes."

"Fascinating." She wonders just what sources they're funding themselves with, it might just be 'extradimensional travel' or the first-mover profits from it.

" - and you can run a complete basic income that produces enough for everyone in all your systems out of it to 'not need to work?'" Ari may need to raise her game.

"Yup! It can still be expensive to live in the most popular cities or pursue certain hobbies or acquire certain magic items, of course. But someone who's happy to live in a lower-demand area can easily cover groceries and clothes and comprehensive magical healing and the most mass-transmittable formats of media and occasional tourism and some extras according to taste."

"Because of the matter conjuration?" She glances at Miri, who does a sort of tiny slant nod. "What do you do for transport?"

"There are a few different ways to teleport things. For anything that isn't very time-critical and doesn't have to go to a different planet there are machines that can move it around without needing supervision from people."

"Really? How do they work?"

"Really? How do they work?"

"They're little machines with some advanced technology in them that lets people program in their routes and have them travel unmanned. I'm not sure if you want to get into an entire detour on the details of that now or not?"

"It is not the highest priority thing for me to do with my time," Arimer says regretfully. (That remains trying to minimize the death toll.) "What does your magic healing look like?" That's a good way of getting at it - if they can actually just fix things...

"Is there anyone you'd like us to demonstrate on? Natsuko and I have different kinds, and there's a mass-produced low-grade version that Tarwë knows how to implement manually. And Cassiel can do some but it's not her primary training."

"- How do they work?"